The One Minute Manager
With all of this talk and thinking about training and education – bringing people to a point where they can learn things and then teach others the same thing – I thought I should probably do some reading on it.
I happened to be skimming through Dave Ramsey’s recommended reading list, and I wrote down several books that I thought would be a great help (which were most of the ones on his list). Then I searched the catalog of our local library to see if they had any of them. They actually had several.
So on my way to band practice at church last night, I stopped at the Amelia branch, signed up for a library card (which I had been meaning to do anyway), and searched for some of the books.
I walked out with two books. One of them was The One Minute Manager by Dr. Kenneth Blanchard and Dr. Spencer Johnson. It was a small paperback – only about 110 pages.
I read the book in under one hour, and I have to say, it was better than I could have expected. It was very simple, and it was written in the style of a narrated story (which I wasn’t expecting), but it was chock full of some very practical methods of managing people and getting great results.
I won’t spoil the three secrets in the book for you. I HIGHLY suggest you pick up a copy and give it a read. It is definitely worth turning off the TV for an hour to read (which I need to do more of anyway). This book is great whether you manage a home, a business, a family, or a life.
I’m definitely going to apply the things that I learned in this book, and I can already tell you that they are going to work.
On to the next book!
Have any of you read anything like this (or this one specifically)? Any thoughts?
